Pieszcz

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Pieszcz
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Pieszcz (Poland)
Pieszcz
Pieszcz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Sławieński
Gmina : Postomino
Geographic location : 54 ° 27 '  N , 16 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '30 "  N , 16 ° 46' 36"  E
Height : 25-30 m npm
Residents : 544 (2006)
Postal code : 76-113
License plate : ZSL
Economy and Transport
Street : Sycewice ( DK 6 ) - Pałowo - Tyń
Rail route : Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line , railway station: Sycewice (7 km)
Next international airport : Gdansk Airport
administration
Mayor : Zenon Morka



Pieszcz ( German  Peest ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural municipality Postomino ( Pustamin ) in district Sławno ( Slawno ).

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 13 kilometers northeast of the town of Schlawe ( Sławno ).

The place is located in a flat landscape about 25 to 30 meters above sea level. The Motz or Stolper Motze ( Moszczeniczka ) flows through the place, which arises at Bruskowo Wielkie ( Groß Brüskow ) and flows upstream behind Peest into the Wipper ( Wieprza ).

Neighboring places are: in the north Możdżanowo ( Mützenow ) and in the east Swołowo ( Schwolow ) and Gać ( Gatz ) - elle already in the Pomeranian Voivodeship . In the south Pieszcz borders on Pałowo ( Alt Paalow ), Nosalin ( Nitzlin ) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) and in the west on Tyń ( Thyn ) and Postomino ( Pustamin ).

history

Peest southwest of Stolpmünde on the Baltic Sea (left half of the picture, can be enlarged by clicking), west of Stolp and northeast of Schlawe on a map from 1910.
Village church (Protestant until 1945)

The village of Peest (formerly also Peist ) was the ancestral seat of the Pomeranian noble family von Below , who are mentioned there as early as 1335. There were two knight seats owned by two von Below families . Through the marriage of Jacob Döring von Krockow in 1637, the larger share with two thirds of the area and the entire forest stand went to this. With the estates Thyn , Paalow and Nitzlin , the fief complex formed an inheritance gift office, which was later held by the Counts of Krockow .

  • Gut Peest A: From 1637 to 1945 this estate was owned by von Krockow, since 1786 Count von Krockow, whose families provided numerous officers for the Prussian army . The difficult soil conditions made hardly any agriculture possible, much more cattle breeding and dairy farming. The last man on Peest A was Hans Graf von Krockow († 1945).
  • Gut Peest B: Among the owners was Gerd Heinrich von Below , President of the Stargard Court, after his death in 1743 it came to his brother, District Administrator Heino Friedrich von Below . After his death in 1750 his two sons inherited, who in 1763 compared each other in such a way that Peest came to the later Colonel Gerd Bogislav von Below alone. The estate was owned by von Below Schem until 1847 when it was sold to Johann Ferdinand Zarnke . As a result of its extremely difficult soil and weather conditions, it has since changed hands nine times. From 1913 to 1918 William von Simpson (author of the book Die Barrings , 1937) from Georgenburg in East Prussia was the owner (he summarized the experiences on a ride from Peest to Constantinople in the work Im Sattel vom Ostseestrand bis zum Bosporus published in 1916 ), and from him the qualified farmer and animal breeding director Joachim Deicke bought the estate and became the last man on Peest B († 1945).

In 1818 there were 536 inhabitants in Peest. Their number rose to 859 by 1905 and was still 720 in 1939 (191 households).

On March 8, 1945, Peest was occupied by the Red Army . Escape was impossible for the population. Peest came to rest in the Danzig cauldron . East and West Prussian families had fled their homeland here and some of them were abducted with the local citizens or died as a result of other harassment. In the summer of 1945 life gradually returned to normal. Wilhelm Harder became mayor under Russian command. At first, the Germans stayed on the estates as workers. When the Poles entered the village, many German families tried to escape. However, a large part remained, and it was possible to normalize local life.

The goods Peest A and B were initially merged. The Russian commander lived in the Peest B manor house. In 1952 the goods were taken over by the Poles.

The last German families left the place, which was now called Pieszcz and is now part of the Gmina Postomino in the powiat Sławieński in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ).

Local division until 1945

Before 1945, the municipality of Peest had six villages or places to live:

  1. Hammer mill (Polish: Tłuki), watermill (grain and saw mill) on the Motz just before it flows into the Wipper, burned down in 1940. Owner: Countess Luise von Krockow, Gesch. Von Seebeck , 1 country house, stables, workers' house, 1 farm, 15 hectares of light soil
  2. Henningswalde (Ilnica), 5 farms, 4 kilometers north of the village
  3. Prettmin (Przetmino), pasture cooperative, 2 kilometers north of the village
  4. Ziegelei / Forsthaus (Glinka), former brickworks, then Gutsförtsrei of the Peest A estate
  5. Eichenrode (Chełmki), Vorwerk of Gut Peest A, 2 farm workers' houses
  6. Louisenhof (Niesiedlin), Vorwerk, Gutsschäferei Gut Peest A

Sons and daughters of the place

Peest District

Before 1945, Peest formed with the communities Alt Paalow , Neu Paalow , Nitzlin and Stemnitz the office Peest in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The last head of office before 1945 was Karl Böttcher . The municipalities (with the exception of Stemnitz) were also connected to the Peest registry office . District court area was Schlawe .

church

Parish

Before 1945 the population of Peest was predominantly Protestant . The village formed with Thyn own parish and together with the filial community Paalow (consisting of Old Paalow , New Paalow and Nitzlin ) the parish Peest in Kirchenkreis Schlawe the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania in the Prussian Union of churches . In 1940 the parish of Peest had a total of 2100 parishioners. The church patronage lay with the two manor owners Hans Graf Krockow (Peest A) and Joachim Deicke (Peest B).

On June 12, 1941, the rectory burned down. Reconstruction was prohibited by the NSDAP district leader. A room was set up on the remaining kitchen extension for the pastor to stay in when he came to the Peester parish from the emergency apartment 40 kilometers away in Beßwitz ( Rummelsburg district ).

After 1945 the church life of the Protestant Germans in Peest and the surrounding area was still alive until 1957. Numerous volunteer women and men provided services and tasks - some even with the consent of the Polish Protestant bishop in Sopot .

Since 1945 most of the population of Pieszcz has been Roman Catholic . On the part of the Catholic Church, Catholic services were held in the former Protestant Church from 1977. The parish of Pieszcz, which is still independent today, belongs with the parishes of Radosław ( Coccejendorf ) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) to the parish of Sławsko ( Alt Schlawe ) in the Sławno deanery in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members now belong to the parish of Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish church

Village church (back)

The Peester parish church (and today's village church of Pieszcz) was built at the end of the 15th century with a gable roof and a massive west tower. In 1625 significant modifications were made. On the south side of the church was a choir with the patronage box of those von Krockow , including the crypt of those von Below and von Krockow . The von Below family had a second choir until the 19th century . The Deicke family's stalls stood on the gallery on the north side.

After the war, the Protestant church was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church. It was consecrated again on August 25, 1977 and was named Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego ( Exaltation of the Holy Cross ). The current pastor is Cezary Filimon.

Pastor

  1. Daniel Grantz
  2. Johann Wichmann, from 1600
  3. Nikolaus Crusius, from 1641
  4. Peter Kirchhof, 1646–1652
  5. Christian Zulichius, 1652-1658
  6. Joachim Müller, 1658–1686
  7. Michael Pontanus, 1688-1717
  8. Johann Jakob Schmid, 1718–1747
  9. Johann Christoph Derling, 1747–1791
  10. Friedrich Daniel Haacke, 1791–1822
  11. Dr. phil. Karl Ballandt, 1822-1830
  12. Johann Georg Gottlieb Richter, 1830–1887
  13. Wilhelm Friedrich Gurr, 1888–1903
  14. Hugo Tschierschky, 1903–1930 (most recently also superintendent of the Schlawe church district)
  15. Bernhard Gensch, 1934–1946

school

Before 1945, there was a primary school in Peest with two classrooms and teachers' apartments with a barn and stable. Two teachers taught here - most recently main teacher Dahms and teacher Notzke .

After 1945 there were special lessons for the children of the remaining German residents of Pieszcz and the refugees from East and West Prussia, which were held from 1952 to 1957 by the teacher Erna Teschke from Franzen (Wrząca) .

traffic

The place can be reached from the Polish state road 6 (former Reichsstraße 2 , today also European route 28 ) Gdansk - Stettin on a side road that branches off to the north at Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) and via Pieszcz to Tyń ( Thyn ) on the road Sławno - Postomino leads. The only station today is Sycewice (Zitzewitz) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway, after the Staniewice (Stemnitz) railway station on the former Schlawe – Stolpmünde railway line no longer exists due to dismantling in 1945.

literature

  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Cößlin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 879-880, paragraph (45).
  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989
  • Ernst Müller, The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present , Part 2, Stettin, 1912.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wilhelm Hoffmann: Encyclopedia of Earth, Ethnology and State Studies . Volume 2, Leipzig 1866, p. 1618 .
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann (Hrsg.): Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 879 .
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